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Friday, July 2, 1937 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 6 Holiday Baseball Series To Settle Feud ♦ TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY PEAS On the vine. 2 4 cents a pound, you pick ’em Johnson brothers, Walker avenue (35p) MYSTERY CORPSE’ CASE IS CLOSED S. C. Gunter of this city and also Is survive«! by his widow and son, Dalo. A, three sisters, Mrs Myra Bailey, Detroit. Mich , Miss Bent rice Gunter, Astoria, Mrs Ida Burns, Klamath Falls, and two (Continue«! from page 1) brothers. Merle ami Gerald Gunter called ami the statements were of Ashland repeated to him, us notary, in the presence of Dunn and Talent Excerpts from the slgmsl state ment follow: • • • • I returned to work the next morning after my child waa born (unattended) and continued with my nursing duties at the Community hospital until May 30. 1037, when I started on my va«-a- tion That during all of this time Have Those Brakes the dead tmby remained in the cardboard box in my room. That Checked By Our I did not notice any odor coming from the box, but I did during Expert Brake Man this perltx! bum Incense frequent ly. which may have had the effe«-t We give you un ABC of preventing any odor from the child becoming apparent adjustment that will "That on account of my re ligious convictions, and not put your brakes in wanting any publicity In con proper condition. nection with the matter, 1 wanted to bury my child In consecrated ground, and I In tended tn take It with me when 1 left on my vacation and have this done, nnd on lx>t Us lns|MX't Your Hakes Maj 27. 1087. 1 went to the Today —Tomorrow Muy Hr Fortmlller store in Ashland Too Ijite! and purchased a small suit case, with lining and that eve ning I removed the body of my «lend child from the card- lx>ard lx>* and placed name In this suit case, without remov ing the body from the small car«ltx>ard box In which I had first placed it. I FORD MALES AND NERVIGE ••• • • That at the time the Complete Nervier Under Our baby was born It received no Injuries of any kind as I waa Roof—Phone 50 as careful as poaalble In hand ling It, ami It <ll«l not fall or wan not bruised so far M I know, but waa M «till born baby. "That the first I knew of the body having been discovered was when I recelv«*«! a letter from Bert Swartsley, enclosing a clipping from an Ashland paper, giving the facts in connection with the matter • • •” ’’That to the best of my SAS 370 E. Main RL—Est. 1 know ledge and belief none of the nurses at the hospital, the Ixmher girls or no one else ha«l any knowledge as to the birth of my child, and 1 know that they did not In any way assist me In the birth of this child and I wish to fully luid completely exonerate any and al! of the people at the boe- pltal of any blame in connec tion with this matter. "That I make this statement of my own free will nnd accord, be ing desirous of telling the whole facts and the truth and I feel sincerely regretful of the trouble i that my actions have cause«! " IRENE SIMON It Is believed by Talent that this revelation will clear up the case completely, as there is no evidence of any crime having been committed Talent saiil "The girl, after mak ing a mistake. to«»k what seemed to her to be the best course pos sible In rectifying It She acted according to the dictates of her religious beliefs and with strong maternal instincts When she dis covered the trouble she had caused WE ARE HEADQUARTERS she was anxious to aid us in every way toward clearing it up.” FOR MEDFORD AND ASHLAND NINES MEET IN 2 TILTS i rpiED with three wins mid five losses each for fourth place I in the southern Oregon league mid ' also deadlocked with one game to j the credit of each team out of two meetings, the Ashlmul Litli- tans and Metiford Craters will j clash in a two-game senes Sunday and Monday, July 4 mid 5, to set- | tie once and for all the baseball , championship of Jackson county ! mid provide another chapter in j the historic athletic feud between i the two cities. Both contests are scheduled for 2:30 o'clock in the I afternoon at the Ashland higii school diamond. More than that, the games will go a long way toward »et- tlenient of an argument which has arisen this year about the relative merits of tour pitch ers, Bob "Lefty" Hardy, mid Lo well Brown of Ashland against Larry Pepper mid Ray Erlcksou, on the Medford mound. It is established in this city that ' Hardy is the class of the circuit Western Auto Supply i as hurlers go while Medford fans House To Open Here i are quite confident that Pepper’s i right-handed curves are the ulti Plans for opening a privately mate in control and performance. owned Western Auto Supply store Me«ifordites are equally insistent in the Butler building on E m ! in their ideas that Brown, a strap Main street formerly occupied by ping big southpaw, is too erratic Provost brothers hardware was to beat their team, and Ashland By LARKY Hl NTKK announce«! this week by J L. Star ers, in denying their allegations, like to point out the fact that TF YOU HEAR anyone -asking buck of Ix>3 Angeles The Miller Erickson's deliveries are generally- 1 ’’Oh. Where Is Minnie?" you can Realty company handled the lease All types of accessories, parts, clouted all over the lot mid that i tell them that probably she was the few to pass the batters have at Grants Pass Sunday with the camping equipment and other mer to be caught in a basket. Lithians "kicking the ball chandise will be sold at the store when it opens on or before Sat Making both games "naturals," I around!" Managers Hall and Balcovic will; Oh. it would be unfair to say urday, July 24, following a com plan their starting lineups so that that all of the local diamond dust plete renovation and refurnishing. Starbuck's wife and small son Hardy and Pepper will do the ers didn't have a few moments flinging in the Sunday game. when they vaguely resembled will Join him soon for residence In ~ of them this city. Brown and Erickson Monday. baseball players. Some Young Wayne Combest, local float even did pretty well during the chucker who has been laid up for entire game. Leverette Purchases a month with a broken wrist, as And Granta Pass critics serted Friday that he would be in probably would resent any at* Lithia Spring Garage uniform, cast and all, hoping to tempt to say that Ashland lost get a chance to fool Meiiford bat the game entirely on their Walter H Leverette's latest ad ters with his weird delivery of the own demerits, because it Is dition to numerous property hold pill. quite true that the .Merchants ings In Ashland and vicinity was The local pitchers will be caught «lid a g«xxl day’s work for announce«! this week by the by Chief McLean and Al Simpson. themselves. Charles A Wing agency of M<*d- Either Rudock or Balcovic will t t 1 ford which handled sale of the wear the mask for the Craters. As is the habit in thia column i Lithia Springs garage by the In tbe Ashland Infield the after a Grants Bass game, atten ¡Western Loan and Building com- sacks will be occupied as fol tion is «iirected to Mr Chuck Os | pany of Salt I-ake City lows: First base. Patterson; trom. He started the bad news by It Is understood that Leverette second. Balding, and third, catching the first fly of the game intends to operate a complete au Ager. Schopf is slated to start at his place in center field for tomotive service for guests of the in his usual position at short Grants Pass, he got on base four ; Lithia hotel under the manage- stop. Keeton, Leavens, Hall times with hits and once on an r.'.ent of Hubert W Eery, hotel mid Durham will be on the error for the five times he faced manager. Lithian outfield roster for the pitcher, and two of those hits It Is not known what price was both days. Parker Hess, in were a double and a triple. Then, involved in the deal nor does Ear) fielder laid up for some time to really be aggravating, he got Leever, present proprietor of the with an injured ankle, prob on the mound ih the ninth inning Leever Motor company in th«- ably will be in uniform for and pitched Just about as well as building, have any definite plans utility duty. any of three Ashland hurlera. for removal to another site Bob Smith, spectacular Med And he really made tracks around ford first sacker, will be "Old the bases as he scored three runs! Klamath Man Will 1 r r Faithful" at that post and the But the thing which was dem rest of the Medford lineup is still Operate Hospital a question locally although rules onstrated best was Jud Pernoll's for the two games admit only iron hand in running the team. It Selected by the city council previous league game contestants. is rumored that much of Mr Os Wally Rickert is a likely choice trom's prowess came from the Monday night, Will W. Woods, for at second and the Lithians hope fact that he spent the night before 10 years manager of the Valley that the much-advertised Duke the game fast asleep In the sane- hospital in Klamath Falls, will as Hankinson will answer roll-call at tity of his own cozy boudoir, which sume superintendency of the Com third. Probable short stop is Dick seemed to steady his nerves about munity hospital here on or about • Lewis, a sticker of no mean pos as well as the better known July 10 He replaces Miss Aida th Losher, whose resignation was Presione Everready brands of Son Of Ixwal Couple cigarets and beer Also sibilities. Sakraida, Knox and Balcovic it was noticed that the Merchant accepted recently. Routine matters concerning free Drow ns Rogue River may start in the outfield and manager wasted no time with Sec Cooling System rumors from Medford indicate that ond Baseman Hallas who tried a water and lights lists of needy Swanson, Acheson and Harrington premature celebration of Inde persons and transfer of a piece of Clyde Gunter, 36. of Grants Cleaning will look for the manager’s nod pendence day by swinging at a city owned property on A street Pass, was drown«-«! Monday after to William A Taylor also occu pitch when instructed to bunt. to play. noon as he and a companion, Merle Celebration atmosphere will be Hallas met Ford coming up to the pied the evening’s session. To PREVENT Nichols, dove into the Rogue river furnished at the field by the C plate in his place as he made his j three miles west of Grants Pass of C Pep band, directed by Virgil way to the bench. Furthermore, ' Lithians Pick New to save Clifford Fixsen, 8, after Jackson, and the Boy Scouts will Mr. Phil Griggs, the temperament-1 the boy had fallen into the swift al hurler from Camp Wimer and sell cold drinks. Karl Nims, man Uniforms, Set Plans water while hunting snails The ager of the Twin Plunges, has Grants Pass, found that his repu men were attracted to the boy’s From ('IXMi(iEI) RADIATORS offered use of his sound truck as tation as a man-about-town only i Cream colored trousers, white plight by women who had seen a public address system for both led to his warming the bench for i shirts, black four-ln-hand ties, him fall in. New- Safe—Sure nine innings! tuts. white shoes and straw hats will Nichols made shore safely with i i t 1 set the Lithians apart as they the struggling lad but Gunter sank Not so A h hland! Nine one- I march In the Greater Ashland into deep water and, upon recov I Like to Nerve You man teams wandered aimlesa- i celebration parade, July 17, and ery of his body an hour later, all ly out onto the playing field Dr. W. Oeser participate in other future civic attempts at resuscitation proved Sunday and made enough er j functions. futile. rors to prove once and for all Tentative plana also were made He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. SOUTHERN OREGON LEAGUE that lack of practice makes at a meeting Monday night fo. Team W. L. Pct. imperfect. A couple or three the recently reorganized boost«, Crescent City ...7 0 1.000 players had attended Matins club to sponsor dances at the Twin Roseburg .4 3 .371 and consequently Heaven Plunges during the summer Grants Pass 4 3 .571 smiled down on them. Patter months to fatten the club's cof- Ashland 5 .375 .3 son got a double and two i fers. 5 Medford ......... 3 .375 singles for four times with Glendale ....1 6 .148 the stick and didn't make an DR. ANGELL DEMONSTRATES error. (No foolin’, he really NEW MAGHINE TO DOCTORS GA.MEN SUNDAY AND didn’t!) And Keeton, Hardy, Dr. E. B. Angell, chiropractic •MONDAY, JULY 4, 5 Durham and Leavens all man physician, Wednesday returned Medford at Ashland (exhi aged to wallop the pellet for from Portland where he attended bition). bases without making any the chiropractic convention held Klamath Falls Red Sox at blunders in the field. It can’t there during the week-end. Dr. Crescent City (exhibition). The Three Pals be said, either, that Bob Har Angell made a personal demon LITHIAN BATTING AVERAGES dy doesn’t practice or that he stration at the meet of his newly That Jolly Well Make Player Ab. H. Pct. gets slopped up during recess, developed "electrochromogene,” a McLean 17 .412 7 but it still seems that he could Beer A Pleasure! diagnostic detector and thera Schopf 30 10 .333 have done some good if he had peutic transmitter used in the Hardy 9 3 .833 deigned to enter the game be diagnosis and treatment of var Patterson 29 9 .310 fore it was thrown away. ious common diseases. The instru Leavens 80 9 .300 OUR STOCK of FINEST QUALITY WINES INCLUDES 1 i 1 ments operate through the use of Ager ............ ...25 7 .280 Most of these prima donnas will ‘'Degnate,'* a special chemical com Hall 15 4 .267 have to concentrate on high notes pound discovered after lengthy and DON MARCO CRITERION Brown ............ 16 4 .250 in ball playing this week and put expensive research by the local Durham ... 4 1 .250 a little less importance on carry doctor. ISCO Keeton DEL MAR 17 4 .235 ing off the tenor aria in "Sweet Balding 27 0 .222 Adeline” or Maestro Mikel Bal each evening, the same group Learning 6 1 .167 covic will give them the gong in putting a prop under the heck Nlmpson .20 .100 2 both of the games they play with they raise during the week his Medford Craters during the and then every mother’s son Team average .206 holidays. of them thinking he’s a little -------------- •-------------- better than everyone else on r f r • Subscribe for the Southern Ore Probably it’s the same story Sunday! If so, Lo, the poor YOU CAN’T STOP Price Only $2.50 Hunting CLAYCOMB MOTOR CO Out Sports OESER’S SUPER Service Station OVERHEATING HOW THEY STAND COLD, CLEAN and GOOD- gon Miner today. One year, |1, six months, 6U cents In all the towns in the league, the same few out to practice manager, beating. is sure taking a Bohemian Club AL BROWER, Proprietor